Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfa028e9a951883c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-15 18:30:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6554ec6207aa56ba8f10ce37659fe7c2 SHA-1: 89106d8ed103c23062459a038b7140c86079e9f3 SHA-256: dfa028e9a951883c27eeb1abaf3abbd1bac71feb773e8168be706681f02a9831
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its direct content, but the presence of numerous external links strongly supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa3777f148cbf1494c87410fed3617dd/30946849326.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/baxiguwavudenegutanuvivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b141e9cf2b2---23047034392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609867ec73486---wuvavudojenosonumadowix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897cec6f970---27888257247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlt-nkp.com/fileupload//file/75335172323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c628c8815d2---kirifiwovojuruvatufirepem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ggatg4aot7slto399p0hs4d4j/rolejorowafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/demimuzanebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/lufidenewavikopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f34aa8388a6e69aaed247cf760fe1a7/32093748144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auburn-companies.com/userfiles/files/78895079056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16258916441368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96848s1ilsk9ink2lhsb552ajh/janisitinafaxukopobukusex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stfrancisfrankford.com/clients/9/90/9051900d87e3fdd5bc97eff612ac54c4/File/nigaxafopopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ead78171d03669e18abf8ad4b8cc4c5e/pujabuzavitugowox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mpmh6t1jprtrvlmfo8i61ko2l2/64875745579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtipartner.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wefiwovijisegazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/92201043509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikketiga.com/contents//files/84574033902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://principesgs.com/userfiles/file/pobedezototoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/27523982929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6610fdb789ed76b6f2a0ff5096b80498/nixapuxirinodedanagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/452b9pp1vq0pbb5n0kc12vjod6/8332582380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=flights+from+miami+to+new+york+todayPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eefb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEFB 16836 bytes
SHA-256: 630d750d80ec64319a9d485bfd5c7faf95bcda6f250c747e400aafff5dc2a54b
font_01_sfnt_off00011afe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AFE 11072 bytes
SHA-256: d39a7a6e95153c60f36ebcb881c6eaed6824b97c8498f82a1c499fdd2479acee
font_02_sfnt_off00013470.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13470 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1